{"id":87717,"date":"2024-06-12T07:59:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87717"},"modified":"2024-06-12T07:59:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T12:59:04","slug":"decay-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87717","title":{"rendered":"Decay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s gross domestic product growth &#8211; which has long run <em>far <\/em>ahead of  national averages &#8211; isn&#8217;t anymore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lake Wobegon is gone:<br><br>Minnesota&#39;s per capita GDP production falls BELOW the national average for the first time ever:<br><br>Data source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wDcrPRmtRv\">pic.twitter.com\/wDcrPRmtRv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bill Glahn (@billglahn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\/status\/1800570659585814949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been observing this for a while now &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39924\">when I decided to move to Minnesota<\/a>, the state was simultaneously a mecca of opportunity in the Midwest, a place that Fodor Travel Guides called &#8220;The Athens of the 20th Century&#8221; in a fit of not-excessive hyperbole &#8211; that was nonetheless modestly affordable for a 22 year old guy with a BA in English, as opposed to an MBA or a software engineering degree.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is just not true anymore.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it might seem rote and predictable to follow that with &#8220;and it&#8217;s the DFL&#8217;s fault&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, honestly, who else has been driving the ship for the past 16 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota&#8217;s gross domestic product growth &#8211; which has long run far ahead of national averages &#8211; isn&#8217;t anymore: I&#8217;ve been observing this for a while now &#8211; when I decided to move to Minnesota, the state was simultaneously a mecca of opportunity in the Midwest, a place that Fodor Travel Guides called &#8220;The Athens of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87718,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87717\/revisions\/87718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}